This article discusses the employment policy implemented in Brazil in the last 20 years as a response to rising unemployment caused by structural crisis and the restructuring of production, due to the current stage of capitalist accumulation. However, such policies have only reinforced the precarious conditions of life and work of the working class rights and flexible labor contracts and create income‑generating programs that strive to promote the welfarism income to the poor proved to distancing themselves from the perspective of (re) integration into the labor market.
Unemployment; Employment policies; Welfarism